sugar toxic

I have a hard time believing that the average dieter who loses weight and regains it multiple times doesn't understand that they can't just go back to their old eating habits. And from what I've read, leptin levels are more affected by fat stores than by eating carbohydrates, so you can't just arbitrarily raise leptin by increasing carbs, at least not for more than a very short term basis. I don't really believe that willpower can overcome the body's desire to eat, otherwise diet success rates would have better long-term prognosis.

Physiology has a big factor, I recognize this, but it does not remove culpability like you are suggesting.

To be honest, I'm too lazy to type out a lot of stuff.

Why dieting fails (read the first question and answer):
http://body-improvements.com/2008/10/08/lyle-mcdonald-interview-part-4-why-diets-fail-and-obesity/

From there, read Lyle McDonald's 6-part leptin series.

"Eat less, move more" has been the mainstream approach for decades and it has failed time and time again.

Eat less, move more works just fine. The problem is, if you look at the data, compared to 40 years ago, Americans are eating MORE and moving LESS. It's really quite simple to figure out why there's an obesity problem, more and more jobs are becoming computer and machine based, people are spending more and more time being sedentary, rather than active, and food in general is much more plentiful, not to mention eating becomes easier when you are less active, as a computer programmer who works from home can eat much more often and end up eating much more than say, a factory worker on an assembly line. And then you take into account that a lot of factory jobs have turned into "push button, watch machine" and it becomes pretty clear why people are growing more and more out of shape, and it has nothing to do with sugar.

Maybe because Lustig is a known fear mongerer?

Here is the full text of the study they reference in the article

Consumption of Fructose and High Fructose Corn Syrup Increase Postprandial Triglycerides, LDL-Cholesterol, and Apolipoprotein-B in Young Men and Women. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism August 17, 2011 jc.2011-1251

http://goo.gl/jfmxn 

My main takeaway from the study was maybe it's not that great of an idea to consume 25% of your daily cals in HFCS if you're sedentary and eating at maintenance or above. However there is a huge confounder in that in the outpatient phase of the study when they were consuming 25% of their cals in sugar, they ate ad lib, so it's possible they were chowing down on foods with lots of trans fats or stuff like that that could have lead to the elevated blood markers.

If we look at studies such as this one, which had intake much more controlled, subjects ate 43% of their daily cals in sucrose which is basically the same as HFCS and LDL decreased, however they were also eating in a deficit.

Metabolic and behavioral effects of a high-sucrose diet during weight loss. Am J Clin Nutr. 1997 Apr;65(4):908-15.

www.ajcn.org/content/65/4/908.full.pdf

I know I've heard all this before. It doesn't add up. I think we should be a lot fatter than this because this environment has changed quite a bit more than obesity rates have. Plus it doesn't explain the obese cultures that are not like us.

What cultures? Some cultures view fatness as a sign of wealth and therefore purposefully over feed. Some cultures (like the Japanese and Okinawans) practice "hara hachi bu," eat until you're 80% full so that they don't get fat. Sometimes it's environment. The Inuits, for example, consume a diet largely made up of fat, some protein and almost no carbs yet their CVD is (was) lower than North Americans. But, no matter how it goes, overeating = fat gain. Why someone eats a lot or little can be for so many reasons. But we should not remove culpability. Little Johnny wouldn't have been all that fat 100 years ago yet he would now. The manipulation of how foods taste now can be partially blamed but no one is forcing food down anyone's throat.

I'm not particularly sure why you are so set on making sure fat people arent to blame for the excessive consumption of food. There are too many societal and psychological factors to pinpoint one but we can say for sure fat people are fst because they eat too much. And fat people who become skinny then fat again eat too much.

"Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, believes the high amount of sugar in the American diet, much of it in processed foods, is killing us."
OK, that does not sounds crazy to me. I have to agree with that.

"And as Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, new scientific research seems to support his theory that sugar is toxic, including some linking the excess ingestion of sugars to heart disease."
That is widely believed. Ever seen Food Matters?

I don't understand the haters who posted before me. I have never heard of this Lustig guy but sounds like he is on the right path.